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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-05
Gotham's Liveries and Uniforms

New York is becoming great place for
iveries and uniforms Coachmen are clad
with a variety that is almost grotesqua The
bess tailorS make their coats, and they often
wear many hundred dollars worth Of fur.
The footmen hold their positions solely by
reason Of their attractive proportions, and
they are as fastidious as dandies about their
attire. A woman Of fashion who lives oppo-
site me has about the most fetching thing in
footmen in town He is English, about IA
years old, with rudy cheeks, big gray eyes
and an erect and easy carriage His mistress
He has dozen OF them, and all are made by
the best tailor in New York. This morning
ne followed his mistress 10 the carriage clad
in q green frock coat, corduroy trousers,
white duck overgaiteIs and sharp toed
patent leather Loots. He wore the nsatest Of
yellow kid gloves, natty beaver hat, and his
shoulders were covered by magnificent seal
skin cape All the coachmen in New York
are in livery low, and 50 are most Of the
hackmeu. The drivers of Fifth avenue
stages wear blue coats with yellow buttons,
red collars and opera hats. The man who
designed their liveries should be obliged to
wear one forever. can imagine no greater
punishment.
Hail Of the errand boys in town are known
as buttons which means that they wear
hveries covered with brass buttons, and the
messenger boys, park, city and district po-
hcenlen are all more or less showily attired
All the conductors On the street and elevated
lines are in uniform, just are the janitors
of the biz public buildings and the porters in
banks and important commercial houses. 4
nan dreSslnaker on Fifth avenue has three
little boys who are clad entirely in red livery
from head TO feet They are all blondes, and
their yellow hair Is banged IN front and falls
TO their shoulders behind Besides Ill this.
the streets are filed with Mexicans, India. IS
cowboys from Buffalo Bills show aud visit
ing delegations Of toboggan and snowsLoc
clubs from Montreal These, with an oclsa-
sional infusion Of Arab pedd!ers, Indian jog
glers and immigrants from all portions OF hS
world, enhance the picturesqueness of tie
streets of New York--Blakely Hall in Nav
York Mail and Expr-S
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-05
An Absent Minded Benedict.

Not 1000 years ago gentleman from a
distant city welded fair daughter Of Athens
lie had been considered by his friends Is a
confirmed bachelor unni be fell q victim to
the charms of this fair maid he was also
noted Tor bis absent mindednesS This was
displayed when the minister WAS performing
the marriage cere uouy. When il became
his duty to place the ring on her finger be
drew a silver quarter from his pocket and
handed it TO bis bride, 70 the CONSERVATION
and confusion OF al parties. That afternoon,
when he embarked on the tram with his bride
for tour and the conductor came around
for tickets. tie groom found that be had only
bought ole ticsst, forgetting that he had
doubled his expense and responsibilities tha.
day.-SLvauuah News
COlIlssocl- the Uiseovsrer rIc1 SsA<I1-
stock loCe, which has maeis miil.onaires OF q
half dozen CalfosniaIis and broken down
gamblers OF as many thousands, lies buried
in the outskirts Of Bozeman, " T. He dis
covered Eve Of the richest silver mines in
Nevada, yet he sold his property for trifie,
and, like most pruspectors, be lived life Of
exposure and hardship, and died in extreme
poverty.-Bostoa Budget
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-05
A Cherokee Indians Honor.

There can hardly be a doubt that there 10
something wrong about the Indian country
There is not Jail anywhere within the
bounds OF the Cherokee reservation No
country can ever be at a high point OF civil
zation in which there are no jails and nobody
does anything to need them We have always
been taught to look upon Damon and Pythias
as one of the most beautiful stories of friend
ship and honor Listen to this from the
Cherokee Indian, and ask yourself II it does
not give you some different opinion OF him
An Indian was shot for killing another man
some time ago. A stranger in the territory
happened to be with the sheriff when the
news came that the appeal had been lost and
the sentence must be carried out.
Yes said the sheriff, I'm have to have
the poor fellow shot"
Where is bel don't So any jail
Hes at BONE
"A prisoner under sentence q death at
hogneI-
Certainly: he's out ON his word Hss
been at home three months We've got no
jlils herer
well, you don't expect TO get him to come
and b shotF
Certainly do Hen b here tomorrow.
sent for him
And the merry stranger laughed Next
iay he was on hand to witness the sheriNs
discontinue But q few minutes before the
hour a cavalcade appeared in the distance. Il
was beaded by a manly young Indian and II
vas made up Of bis friends. They rode gal
lantly up and the young Indian surrendered
himself 70 the sheriff He went abou. among
the crowd, shool, hands with eve-yb body. gave
one bis saddle another his horse and 80 On,
until he had disposed Of ali DE possessed
Then he selected his bosom friend Is tie man
to fire the fatal shot, an honor his bosom
friend esteemed highly. He took his place,
be pinned piece OK blue ribbon over his
heart, the point the bullet was to take. and
stood I'D like man A few seconds. there
wss shot ani he was dead I wonder II
there IS nothing at ali The white man can
learn from the Cheroksa Indian--San Fran
cisco Chronicle &C ndertones-7
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-05
4 MAi6EN's INGENUITY.
The Tailor's Daughter and Her +,
SuitOrs-A Pretty Story.

4 -
The TaiIor's Daughter and Her rw.
| suitos-A Pretty Story.
There was once tailor who had q beauti
full daughter. All tine young men from IA
and near came to visit her because Of hel
| beauty. Two rivals sought her one day and
said:
1T IS on your account that ~ have counl
hither"
what do you want Of mer she replied,
smiling.
@We .Sve ypu.' returned the two yvuuc
nen, -and each Of Us wi,5es to marry you"
The maiden, being well brought up, called
her fathar, who listened TO the two lovers,
| ard then said:
1T is late; go home now. but come again
tomorrow, and you shall hen know which OF
you shall have my daughter
At daybreaa the next morning the two
young men returned Here we are" they
cried TO the tailor; remember what you
promised Yesterday"
wait a little" be replied; Il am going to
town to buy piece Of cloth; when return
horne with it you shall learn what expect
from YOU"
When the tailor returned from town be
called his daughter, and On her appearance
he SAID 10 TIC young men:
My children there are two Of you and l
have but one daughter To whom shall
give herr Whom must l refused Behold this
piece OF CLOTH l viii cut from it two suits OF
clothes exactly alike; each one Of you must
sew one OF them; he who finishes his task first
shall have my daughter
Each OF the rivals took his task and prom
ised TO Set about it: the father called his
daughter and said to her:
Here is the thread. make it ready for the
two workers.
The maiden obeyed her father, and taking
the bundle of thread seated herself near the
young men
But she was as clever as she was beautiful;
though her father did not know which of the
two she loved, nor the young men themselves,
she knew well enough. The tailor went
away, the maiden prepared the thread, the
young men took their needles and began to
sew To the one she loved the beauty gave
short needlefuls. but to the other she did not
love she gave long needlefuls. They sewed
and sewed, III eager haste; at IL O'Clock the
work was not half done, but at 3 the young
man who had short needlefuls had completed
his task, while the other had yet much to do.
When the tailor returned the conqueror
brought to him the completed suit, while his
rival still sat sewing.
My children" said the father, II did not
wish to favor one more than another, that
was why divided the cloth into two equal
parts and told you: He who finished his task
first shall have my daughter Did you un-
derstaId mef'
-Father,' replied the two young men, I'VE
understood you, and accepted the test; what
must be must
The tailor had reasoned thus: aHe who
finishes first will be the most skilfI work
man, and consequently better able to support
WIFE" but he never imagined that his
daughter would give long needlefuls to
man she did not wish to marry. Cleverness
carried the day, and the maiden really chose
her own husband-Buffalo Express.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-05

Tiny tobosgalls now -aansie from thl
bangle worn BY the progressive girl OF ths
period
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-20
4 Woman's Experience.

Whenever / offered to help in any house
hold duty remember | was told that il was
more trouble 20 show me how to do it prop
erly than TO do 1t alone, and SO my poor,
patient, hard working mother baked and
churned and swept and ironed alone, and
when she had worked herself into an I'M
necessarily early grave, she left behind her a
daughter who could neither wash dishes nor
sew up a seam"
Perhaps | should blush to confess that
could feed the swine" aye and the rest of
stock, and could harness a team and drive
il, too. rs we'll as any man on the place. For
/ had led wild, nomad sort OF life out of
school hours, and when [ followed my father
and brothers to the field they did not seem to
find it trouble to teach me. so in my way
became quite a farmer, but | was none the
less unable to keep my fathers house. 1
learned it all later, but through much t.'ibu-
lation.
Ii is true kindness to children TO give to
each some daily duty, and insist on Its being
promptly and thoroughly done | often
wonder how much of my husbands dyspepsia
is due to the fact that the means of our early
married life were something calculated to
produce that disease in an ostrich. Don't let
your daughters wait to learn their house
keeping by experience. The air that some
homes have of going at ''siXes and seven" is
q strain on the affections that few men are
able to endure. Make your children self
helpful and helpful to others. Cor. Rural
New Yorker
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-20
How to Dust a Room.

The proper way to dust room is to begin
with the walls Pin several thicknesses of
cloth over a broom and sweep the walls
down thoroughly, leaving at the same time
all the doors and windows open. This matter
of sweeping the walls is important and should
be done once week in rooms that are much
used Then with damp cloth wipe off the
picture cords or wires, the backs of all the
picture frames and the tops of the door and
window frames. If there is any danger Of
injuring pictures or frames With camp
cloth use a dry one, but wipe them FL off
carefully. As often as you can get good
draft which will carry the dust out OF the
window, shake and beat the curtains, whether
they be Holland, lace, scrim or what not, for
they are prime sinners in the matter OF bar
boring dust
The window-sasb, sill and glass-should
also receive attention Use large cloth,
with half of it well dampened for busting,
the dry end being useful to wipe of small
articles that might be injured by dampness-
and be careful that you manipulate the cloth
80 as to wipe the dust into it and keepit there.
If it gets dirty have a clean one, and always
wash them out and scald them after using.
If there are inside shutters to the windows
they need to be cared for almost as tenderly
as baby. A thorough cleaning every week,
carefully wiping both upper and under sides
OF the Stats, is the only thing that will keep
them in decent order. A room is not thor
oughly busted until all the furniture and
woodwork and gas fixtures have been cleaned
with the damp duster. Upholstered furni-
ture should be taken out, brushed all over
and then wiped with the damp cloth, not for
getting the under side.-F1orence Finch
Kelly in New York Mail and Express
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-20
The Study of Human Nature,

A teachers work is not to correct effects.
but to study and mould causes. The trouble
with poor government is that it is ALWAYS
dealing with effects. Good government d.
reefs the working of causes. We have known
poor school become good one through the
skillful management of causes; there was no
storming, but disorder disappeared, bad
words were dropped, rough manners were
smoothed, inpohteneSs became politeness; in
a word, the old school was transformed into q
new one, but there was no noise about it
Nothing was done that even a critical visitor
would notice, but everything was done The
teacher knew how to touch the springs Of
causes. Here was the secret Of her success
"Where can / learn this divine artss thou
sand teacheys ask. Not in books, but in your
selves. Study causes and effects First in
your own experience and then in others Why
do dislike this and like thati Why is that
boy mischievous and that girl needless.
Whya Whyl Whyi Soon you viii know
just what to do to make that boy forget bis
michel, and that girl her inattention There
Is no more profitable study than the study of
human extraordinarily ss it is called. II
Is more than mind study; 1t is human study.
The School Journal
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-20
flushing tho Fashions.

TIE room was filling fast when in stepped Q
pretty girl She had the elastic tread, the
clear skin, the bright eye, the blowing hair
that belong to American young womanhood,
but nobody looked at her for these Every
eye was bent on gown, on hat, on wrap. The
rest of the assembage were winter; she was
spring. have no memory for the details of
the costume. l only know that it was in
browns and grays with touch of red here
and there, a ribbon sash futtering from the
skirt, bunch of posies nodding in the head.
There was no tournure. The drapery fell i'm
simple and natural folds A modest, unob-
tI-usive garb in every particular, quietly
worn. Every one gazed at the flowers and
became conscious that the season for feathers
was gone Every woman noted the tailor
jacket and felt a sudden pang of disgust at
the weight of belated sealskin. A moment
before they were uneasy. They had been on
the verge of a transition. The young girl had
precipitated the crisis. 1t was upon them.
1t was past. They would not appear in pub
lie again till they were dressed as she.
Two women behind me were talking about
her; a walking lady" from SO & Sos estab-
lishment, tAey called her. One met her at
the picture galleries. in the book stores, ON
the promenade, wherever women congre-
gated, they said. 1t was her business to rush
the season, spring and fall, and to introduce
new material or novel shape, by looking
pretty in it and drawing eyes wherever she
wore it. Il am going to ask her what she
calls that jacket and whether bustles are
really going OUT wound up the holder of tho
pair as she left her companion and walked
up to the graceful young girl. A moment
later the two were in conversation, the walk
ing lady answering her inquisitor's questions
with apparent readiness and ease.
The walking lady. is unique advertise
ment | am inclined TO think she is new
one She does not seem, at any rate, to be
extensively employed as yet Most of the
firms at which | have inquired after her dis
own her acquaintance.-Eliza Putnam Hea-
ton in New York Mail and Express.
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HARDY SOLOMON & SONS
NOTICE TO STRANGERS AND NON-RESIDENIs.

If strangers who visit Wichita and feel
an interest in its future will cali at the office
Of Hardy Solomon & Sons, 331 E Douglas
avenue, and register their name and place of
residence they will be furnished thereafter, by
mail, free of charge, with all important matter
pertaining to the welfare of this city. We
will also be pleased to furnish non-residents
with any information they may wish in regard
to our city and will, if they send us their
names and address, from time to time send
them copies of our live daily papers free of
charge. We buy and sell real estate for nom
residents and can refer to persons in any
state in the union to whom we have sold
Wichita real estate and for whom we have
made money We also refer to the Wichita
National Bank or any of the daily papers o
Wichita.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-20
Woman's Suffrage Societies.

Ladies in New York interested in suffrage
for women" are. by means Of different local
societies, educating themselves in the ques-
ton OF the day as involved in politics and
constitutional rights. One reason, and a very
excellent one, assigned for such course of
study is the ignorance among women of the
theory of government and the necessity for q
knowledge of the fundamental rules of politi-
cal economy, whether the rights of suffrage
be ever accorded to them or not or these
societies, one is the New York City Woman
Suffrage league" of which Mrs. l. D. Blake,
as successor to Mrs Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
is president. Another is the "Woman's Suf-
frage committee, presided over by Mrs Kate
Palmer Stearns A third is the Society for
Political Study" at which city and state gov
ernments are discussed. Mrs Emily Wake
man is president.-New York Cor Chicago
Journal
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= Novel Decoration

Did you ever hear Of stained glass windows
being made out OF stonesl Passing down
Chestnut street the other morning noticed
some panels in the front door of q private res
idence which were filed with small. rough
pebbles, together WITH q number Of polished
shells, placed in the corners OF some deco
rative ornament composed OF the translucent
material known as opalescent or mosaic
glass As an architect ] was naturally inter-
ested in such q novel combination. and upon
Investigation discovered the origin of the
work. 1t seems that the occupant of the
house was down in Florida last year, and his
children made a collection of whole bags Of
pebbles and shells, tie former being of the
rudest description. Some weeks ago be WIS
conversing with an eastern art man, Who
made the boast that he could construct w,n-
dow out Of almost anything. The pebbles
and shells were accordingly given him, with
the above result The effect is certainly in
teresting to the passer by and charming in its
arrangement of colors when viewed from the
-Globe-Democrat
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-20
just Looked at Him.

Sometimes an impudent ruffian gets his
due at the hands of a woman. Not long ago
a modest, well bred girl paused for moment
on street corner to await the coming of a
friend whom she bad left indoors. A man
saw the stationary feminine figure, and. ap-
preaching, began with confidence to talk
about the weather and inquire the young
woman's destination. He was met with a
stony stare He braved it for a moment and
talked on, but presently his words began to
fail, lie repeated himself, he stammered, he
suffered, he even blushed under the cool,
surprised eyes, and in the end he turned and
almost ran away from the woman he was III
sulting. Chicago Herald.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-20
4 Girls Fire Briyade.


In Liverpool cigar factory, where 1000
girls are employed, a fire brigade, composed
of the operatives, has been organized The
girls are well differed and drilled, and at a
recent blaze in the factory did efficient ser
vice in subduing the flames
Should They Wear smooth Faces?
A gentleman who has paid considerable at.
tention to the human voice contends that hair
around the mouth tends to impair the uttar.
arce in song and speech. The sounds are
broken or muffied as they are projected from
the mouth. Most of the famous LAWYERS.
ministers and parliamentary orators have
been clean shaver. Among these NAV be
mentioned Lord Mansfield, of whom Junius
said that he considered him the most danger
Gus man in England, because the most
talented; Wilkes, the noted demagogue; Lord
Erskine, Lord Jeffrey, the reviewer; the Earl
of Beaconsfield, Mr.. Gladstone, Lord Mac.
auiay, Richard Gordon, John Bright, Rev.
Mr.. Chalmers, Rev. Edward Irving, the
friend of Mrs. Carlyle, and Rev Mr.. Spur.
geon. Actors, as q general rule, are clean
faced, unless when representing historic char.
acters, like King Lear
In our own country, Patrick Henry, Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher, Wendell Phillips,
Edward Everett, Daniel Webster, Rufus
Choate, William Lloyd Garrison and Charles
Sumner did not have boards or mustaches.
Now every other minister looks rs fierce in
the pulpit as a dragon in saddle, ready to
draw saber for an onslaught. Foreign singers,
to man, are hairy about the mouth Ameri-
cans as well as British have copied the men
of the continent OF Europe in the matter Of
hair about the mouth during the past fifty
years; before that bearded American OF
Britisher was rarely seen. Now almost every
one who can raise beard has one It is not
known whether Demosthenes or Cicero wors
boards, but we suppose Peter the Hermit, who
preached the first crusade, and Walter the
Pennyless were bearded, because they could
not spare time to shave.-Boston Globe
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Woman Versus Man.

There is growing tendency nowadays for
women to unsex themselves-that is, to crowd
into occupations which have up to late years
been occupied exclusively by man. If women
usurp occupations originally intended for the
other sex, what about the men who are
thrown outs for it is very certain there is not
room for both" This is fallacious popular
idea. The question is misunderstood; women
have not become manly, but men have be-
come effeminate. In consequence of all their
time immemorial employments having been
gradually taken from them, women in this
Nineteenth century are absolutely driven to
seek some outlet for their energies, or neces-
sites, in new lines of work National Re-
view
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The Value of a HeIpmeet.

When man becomes a widower he soon
learns what the financial worth of his wife
was to him. When he Is compelled to hire
the food cooked, the garments made, the
washing and ironing done, he finds that about
One-half of his income is required to meet
these outgoes. Who saved this expense be-
fore? Let the cold fingers and the sileris lips
in the graveyard bear testimony Eng,
land Farmer